“While millions of other predators have repeated the same behavior to obtain the same food for thousands of years at a time, a spider with fewer brain cells than a honeybee has learned to formulate a unique course of action for each new situation,” wrote one observer.

Even though the spiders often hunt prey far larger than themselves, their deadly venom is potent enough to be able to kill within minutes.

Luckily for human beings, the spiders are miniature in size, measuring between 5 and 10 millimetres.